Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850


Richard W. Unger
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Leiden : : BRILL, , 2011.
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1 online resource (484 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; The Problem and the Proposition; Chapter One Shipping, Productivity and Economic Growth; Productivity Trends in Various Shipping Regimes; Chapter Two Productivity Changes in Shipping in the Dutch Republic: The Evidence from Freight Rates, 1550-1800; Chapter Three The Strange Tale of the Decline of Spanish Shipping; Chapter Four Productivity in English Atlantic Shipping in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Navigation Acts. - Chapter Eleven Work on the Docks: Sailors' Labour Productivity and the Organization of Loading and UnloadingChapter Twelve Total Factor Productivity for the Royal Navy from Victory at Texel (1653) to Triumph at Trafalgar (1805); Chapter Thirteen Sailors, National and International Labour Markets and National Identity, 1600-1850; Chapter Fourteen Characterization of Technological Change in the Shipping Industry, 1350-1800; Chapter Fifteen Seaports as Centres of Economic Growth: The Portuguese Case, 1500-1800; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index. - Chapter Five Institutions and the Environment: Shipping Movements in the North Sea/Baltic Zone, 1650-1800Chapter Six Productivity Change in Eighteenth Century Finnish Shipping; Chapter Seven The Macau-Nagasaki Route (1570-1640): Portuguese Ships and their Cargoes; Chapter Eight Why Shipping "Declined" in China from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century; Chapter Nine Operational Efficiencies and the Decline of the Chinese Junk Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Connection; Sources of Productivity Growth; Chapter Ten Ship Design and Energy Use, 1350-1875. - Shipping was the most dynamic sector of the economy of Europe from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century. Europeans who moved goods by sea dramatically improved their efficiency, laying the foundations for greater economic growth to come and for domination of the world's oceans.
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